AF 447 Flight Recorder Found In the Atlantic

romiz writes "The memory of the flight recorder for the Air France 447 flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, crashed on June 1st 2009, has been found on the seabed of the Atlantic Ocean, and brought back to the surface in good shape. This is the data recorder, which saves the flight parameters. The search is still continuing in hope of finding the voice recorder containing the sounds recorded in the plane's cockpit."

Re:Needle in a Hay Stack

[cdrudge]

All the way.

Re:Amazing

[Dunbal]

I have trouble finding my car keys some days.

I'm sure if you spent a couple dozen million dollars, you would find your car keys very quickly.

Re:Amazing

[Aardpig]

In fact, finding a needle in a haystack is trivial. Douse the whole stack in gas, torch it, and then run a strong electromagnet over the ash.

Re:I don't get this

[BronsCon]

Got a GPS?
Good.
Now, go jump in a lake with it.

Where are you? What? No GPS lock? Oh, that's ok, it still transmits its last known coordinates and you shouldn't be too far from there; I'll just use that signal. Oh... wait, there's no signal. Hmm, that LARGE BODY OF WATER must be blocking it.

No bother, anyway, those coordinates would only be accurate enough to tell me you're at the crash site; something I already know.